This is the first in a series of Academic Support Program workshops designed for first-year law students. Prof. Kaltsounis will moderate a panel of 2L and 3L students as they discuss methods for taking notes, briefing cases, and participating in law school classes.

Monday, October 29

UW Law Dean Kellye Y. Testy invites you to celebrate the installation of

Eric Schnapper

Betts Patterson Mines Professor of Law

The program will include Professor Schnapper’s lecture The Art of Summary Judgment.During the lecture, Schnapper will explore how the summary judgment motion practice

Poses tactical opportunities and pitfalls unlike trials

May require a distinctive approach to discover

Presents opportunities to shape the judgment through procedural devices not established (or forbidden) by Rule 56

Raises a number of unresolved procedural and evidentiary legal questions.

UW School of Law, William H. Gates Hall

Room 138 at 4:30 p.m.

Created by Frederick V. Betts ’33 and Betts, Patterson & Mines, a highly respected Seattle litigation law firm, this professorship honors the work of Betts, his firm and the establishment as one of the finest litigation firms in the state of Washington.